Helping low-income adults obtain higher-quality jobs can lead to better job retention and wage growth. These individuals and others who experience difficulty in the labor market need access to employment services that enable them to enter the workforce and become reemployed if they lose their jobs.
President’s Budget Includes Request for Transitional Jobs
By Neil Ridley
The President’s FY 2011 budget requests $40 million for a second round of competitive grants to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of Transitional Jobs strategies. The Transitional Jobs model combines short-term subsidized employment, case management and other services to enable individuals with barriers to employment to gain work experience and build skills. This proposed investment will assist disadvantaged jobseekers who face the greatest difficulties in the labor market.
The budget also calls for an additional $2.5 billion for the TANF Emergency Fund, which can be used for subsidized employment. See The Employment Connection for more information. In addition, there is a legislative proposal for a $500 million Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund that would make competitive grants to states for comprehensive fatherhood initiatives and for improving child outcomes through services aimed at custodial parents with serious barriers to self-sufficiency. Transitional Jobs are among the funded activities.
- Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Jan 28, 2010 Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Creates Jobs Now
- Evelyn Ganzglass | Nov 18, 2009 Job Creation: Creating Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income Populations
- Neil Ridley | Mar 26, 2009 Work Sharing--an Alternative to Layoffs for Tough Times
- Allegra Baider and Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Apr 03, 2009 Making the Employment Connection: New Opportunities to Support Transitional Jobs Programs Using the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund
- David Fischer and Jeremy Reiss | Apr 20, 2009 From Stimulus to System: Using the ARRA to Serve Disadvantaged Jobseekers
- Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Jan 28, 2010 Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Creates Jobs Now
- CLASP | Jan 25, 2010 Federal Policy Recommendations for 2010
- Evelyn Ganzglass | Nov 18, 2009 Job Creation: Creating Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income Populations
- CLASP | Oct 08, 2009 CLASP Testimony to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
- Ronnie Kauder and Neil Ridley | Sep 18, 2009 Earning and Learning: Options under the Workforce Investment Act